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300 1) What are the appropriate skills needed to calculate wages, taxes, discounts, and simple interest? Apply these skills to such topics as housing investments and buying and selling goods.
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300 2) What are the essential mathematical skills that are needed on a daily basis?
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400 1.  Review of arithmetic
400 2.  Percents
400 3.  Solving simple linear equations
400 4.  Banking 
400 5.  Credit
400 6.  Purchasing
400 7.  Insurance
400 8.  Income Tax
500 Students will be able to:
500 1.  Add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers, fractions, and decimals 
500 2.  Estimate, round and compare numbers
500 3.  Convert between percents, fractions and decimals
500 4.  Use percents in problem solving 
500 5.  Indentify and represent an unknown algebraically
500 6.  Create proportions to solve enlargement/reduction problems
500 7.  Solve simple linear equations, including those that involve proportions
500 8.  Solve problems involving metric measurements of length, area, volume, mass, and capacity
500 9.  Interpret bar graphs, line graphs, and circle graphs
500 10.  Find the mean from a set of data 
500 11.  Find the median from a set of data 
500 12. Find the mode(s) from a set of data 
500 13.  Solve problems involving hourly rates, commission, and net pay
500 14.  Develop skills involved in banking:  filling out deposit slips, writing checks, maintaining a check register, reconciling a statement, computing interest
500 15.  Develop skills involving credit:  promissory notes, credit cards, charge accounts, installment buying  
500 16.  Develop skills in purchasing an automobile:  sticker prices, offers, total cost, shopping for a car
500 17.  Develop skills involved in travel:  reading distances, finding times and expenses
500 18.  Develop skills involved in acquiring/maintaining housing:  renting, decorating, buying, and building
500 19.  Develop skills involving the filing of income taxes
500 20.  Develop skills involving insurance (needs, appropriate coverage, cost) :  house, life, retirement, automobile
500 21.  Develop skills involving investments:   US savings bonds, certificates of deposit, stocks
500 22.  Develop purchasing skills:  food, clothing, catalog buying
500 23.  Develop budgeting skills
500 24.  Apply appropriate conversion skills to real-world problems 
500 25.  Add, subtract, multiply, and divide signed numbers
500 26.  Represent unknown quantities using variables 
500 27.  Identify operations from key word/phrases 
500 28.  Create equations using variables and identified operations 
500 29.  Solve one-step equations using addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division 
500 30.  Solve two-step equations using two operations 
500 31.  Solve multi-step equations involving like terms, parentheses, and/or variables on both sides 
500 32.  Solve one-step inequalities using addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division 
500 33.  Solve two-step inequalities using two operations 
500 34.  Solve multi-step inequalities involving like terms, parentheses, and/or variables on both sides 
500 35.  Graph solutions to inequalities 
500 36.  Use exponent properties to operate on polynomials 
500 37.  Identify common numerical factors of polynomials 
500 38.  Identify common variable factors of polynomials 
500 39.  Use the identified common factors to rewrite the polynomial as a product 
500 40.  Find the range from a set of data 
500 41.  Create a frequency distribution from a set of data 
500 42.  Draw conclusions about data from statistics 
500 43.  Calculate the probability that an event will occur 
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600 Students will:
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600 Use calculators
600 Perform banking skills
600 Fill out a basic income tax form
700 Students will be assessed by:
700 (1) Daily homework assignments which will acount for 25% of their final grade 
700 (2) Quizzes, 80-90% application, 10-20% application; covering one to few days of material
700 (3) Tests which are 80-90% application, 10-20% application.  Tests will cover one chapter of material
700 (4) Projects that may be long or short-term and require students to go beyond the material in the text (e.g. teaching a lesson to the class, producing a video, getting a guest speaker, etc.)
700 (5) Presentations which will vary from minor classroom explanations to project presentations
700 (6) A final exam which will cover an entire semester's material.  This final exam will account for 20% of their final grade.
820 1) Text: Mathematics for Consumers, 1st Edition
820 2) Scientific Calculators
820 3) Checkbooks
820 4) Computer Access
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